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[02/13] vfs: don't use PARENT/CHILD lock classes for non-directories

Message ID 1378929799-1110-3-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Bruce Fields Sept. 11, 2013, 8:03 p.m. UTC
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>

Reserve I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD for locking of actual
directories.

(Also I_MUTEX_QUOTA isn't really a meaningful name for this locking
class any more; fixed in a later patch.)

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
---
 fs/inode.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

J. Bruce Fields Sept. 12, 2013, 3:14 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 04:03:08PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
> Reserve I_MUTEX_PARENT and I_MUTEX_CHILD for locking of actual
> directories.
> 
> (Also I_MUTEX_QUOTA isn't really a meaningful name for this locking
> class any more; fixed in a later patch.)

Argh, apologies!  Revising this patch at one point I forgot to fix up
one line, and I somehow overlooked the resulting lockdep warning till
just now.

So it also needs a chunk like:

@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@ void lock_two_nondirectories(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
 {
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(S_ISDIR(inode1->i_mode));
 	if (inode1 == inode2 || !inode2) {
-		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
+		mutex_lock(&inode1->i_mutex);
 		return;
 	}
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(S_ISDIR(inode2->i_mode));

--b.


> 
> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
> ---
>  fs/inode.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
> index 20750b0..9f50a7e 100644
> --- a/fs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/inode.c
> @@ -995,11 +995,11 @@ void lock_two_nondirectories(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
>  	}
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(S_ISDIR(inode2->i_mode));
>  	if (inode1 < inode2) {
> -		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
> -		mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
> +		mutex_lock(&inode1->i_mutex);
> +		mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
>  	} else {
> -		mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
> -		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
> +		mutex_lock(&inode2->i_mutex);
> +		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
>  	}
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_two_nondirectories);
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 20750b0..9f50a7e 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -995,11 +995,11 @@  void lock_two_nondirectories(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2)
 	}
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(S_ISDIR(inode2->i_mode));
 	if (inode1 < inode2) {
-		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
-		mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+		mutex_lock(&inode1->i_mutex);
+		mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
 	} else {
-		mutex_lock_nested(&inode2->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
-		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+		mutex_lock(&inode2->i_mutex);
+		mutex_lock_nested(&inode1->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_two_nondirectories);